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J. C. WOODMAN.

SHIRT.

No. 271,180.. Patented Jan. 23,1883..

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NITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH (J. \VOODMAN, OF AUBURN, MAINE, ASSIGNOR TO F. H. & D;

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SHIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 271,180, dated January 23, 188 3, Application filed April 26, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JosEPH (J. WoonMAN, of Auburn, in the county of Androscoggin, of the State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Woolen Shirts; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a front view of a shirt as it appears without its breast-shield. Fig. 2 is a front view, Fig. 3 a rear view, and Fig. 4 a transverse section, of the said breast-shield, which is entirely separable from the shirt, and when in use therewith is fastened on its breast by buttons and button-holes or other suitable separable fastenings. V Fig. 5 is a front View, and Fig. 6 a transverse section, of the shirt with its removable breast-shield in place.

The object of my invention is to enable the shirt, provided with a turn-down collar, to be worn either with or without the removable breast-shield, as the wearer may desire. To this end I make the shirt A in the ordinary way, with a turn-down collar and with the opening extending from the collar to or about to the waist, and with the cloth to lap and button together at the opening and collar, such being as represented in Fig. 1 and also in Fig. 6, in which a is the opening, 12 and 0 its laps, and d (l d the buttons for buttoning the outer upon the inner of the said laps. With a shirt so made I combine two other vertical ranges to extend down from the collar to or nearly to the Waist, each of such ranges being at an equal or about equal distance from the median vertical line of the front, and one range being on one side and the other being on the opposite side of such line. To these buttons and the bosom of the shirt I apply the removable shield B, which, as represented, is slit vertically down its middle from its upper nearly down to its lower edge, and there provided with a lacing, f, going through two ranges of eyelet-holes, g, and crossing the slit, such being for ornament, the shield being also embroidered or stitched, if desirable. This removable breast-shield I make with a lining, h, in its back, and to form in such lining buttonholes t without having them go through the shield except at its two upper corners, which,

when the shield is in place in the shirt, are covered by the turned-down collar is thereof. These button-holes are to fasten with the buttons e the breast-shield to the shirt.

From the above it will be seen that a shirt made with or having a turn-down collar, with a button and button-hole to close it, and also provided with a removable and separate breastshield, as explained, may be worn either with or without such shield, as the comforter health of the wearer may require, the shield being an additional protection for the chest during cool weather.

I am aware that shirts have been made double-breasted, or with breast-shields permanently fixed to them; such.

I am also aware that a shirt has been made without a bosom, and provided with a detachable front or breast-shield to button to the shirt and cover the breast-opening thereof, such being as represented in the United States Patent No. 46,172, such requiring a person while wearing the shirt to always have the detachable bosom buttoned to it; but with my improved shirt, provided with a permanent bosom and a detachable one,-the shirt may be worn either with or without the auxiliary or detachable bosom or breast-shield. Furthermore, the breast-shield, at the middle of its upper edge orpart, is not buttoned to the shirt, but there has the lacing tied or knotted, the collar being closed by other means-viz., a-button and button-hole. The separable breast-shield, by extending underneath the collar when the latter is turned down, and by having a buttoning-lining, as described, causes the upper end and all the buttons of the shield to be covered. when the shield is in place, and thus gives to the shield the appearance of being an integral part of the shirt.

I am also aware of the shirt described in the United States Patent No. 176,935, such shirt having to its front a removable lining or thereforeI do not claim chest-protector, and such front provided 5 with button-holes to admit of the lining having buttons to be buttoned either on the inner or the outer side of the front, such shirt having no turn-down collar, but simply a neckband. Consequently Iv do not claim a shirt 2 aamnso made as represented in the said Patents Nos. 46,172 and 176,985.

What I claim as my invention is 1. The combination of abreast-shield wholly separable from the shirt and provided with a lacing and button-holes therein, as described, with the said shirt provided with a turn-down collar, and having buttons arranged on it (the said shirt) to engage with said button-holes, and also having an opening in its front from the collar to or about to the waist, and such opening provided with laps to button together, as set forth.

2. The combination of a breast-shield wholly separable from a shirt, and provided with a buttoning-lining and button-holes therein, as described, with a shirt having buttons on its front to operate with the said button-holes in holding the shield in place on the shirt-bosom, as set forth, and also having a closing bosom and collar provided with buttons and buttonholes to the laps thereof, all being substantially as specified.

3. The combination of a shirt provided with a turn-down collar and with a closing bosom, 2

open in front from and through the collar to the waist, and having buttons and buttonholes for buttoning together the laps of said bosom, and also having two auxiliary ranges of buttons arranged down the front, as de- 30 scribed, with aseparable or detachable breastshield, provided with button-holes or a buttoning-lining to button upon the said auxiliary ranges, and also having in it (the said breast-shield) lacing-holes and a lacing, all be- 5 ing substantially as set forth.

v JOSEPH O. WOODMAN. Witnesses: I

i R. H. EDDY,

E. B. PRATT. 

